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File name : Ebook hardtack and coffee or the unwritten story of army life.pdf
Author by : john davis billings
Publisher by : bison books
Book Descriptions hardtack and coffee is one of the few to give a vivid detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day in camp on the march at the edge of a booming smoking hell john d billings of massachusetts enlisted in the army of the potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded the authenticity of his book is heightened by the many drawings that a comrade charles w reed made in the field this is the story of how the civil war soldier was recruited provisioned and disciplined described here are the types of men found in any outfit their not very uniform uniforms crowded tents and makeshift shelters difficulties in keeping clean warm and dry their pleasure in a cup of coffee food rations dominated by salt pork and the versatile cracker or hardtack their brave pastimes in the face of death punishments for various offenses treatment in sick bay firearms and signals and modes of transportation comprehensive and anecdotal hardtack and coffee is striking for the pulse of life that runs through it
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